Quotes about philosophical
philosophical artist best-job
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. Steve Jobs
philosophical thinking democracy
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy. Peter L. Berger
philosophical church way
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it. Peter Jurasik
philosophical giving silence
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. Plato
philosophical doe tao
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know. Plato
philosophical process recollection
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. Plato
philosophical mean reality
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. Ted Chiang
philosophical reality trying
When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in. Randall Jarrell
philosophical men he-man
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
philosophical men needs
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson
philosophical vocabulary giving
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. Shaquille O'Neal
philosophical islamic doubt
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong. Tariq Ramadan
philosophical moral assuming
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. Stanley Fish
philosophical wish maps
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point. Stanley Kubrick
philosophical risk height
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height. Soren Kierkegaard
philosophical greek morality
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. Soren Kierkegaard
philosophical form lasting
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical ambition men
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical men sake
Men exist for the sake of one another. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical persons happens
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical inspiration being-alone
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical men live-well
Where a man can live, he can also live well. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical forever keep-moving-forward
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical taken eternity
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical historical
Anger cannot be dishonest. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical vivid-imagination understanding
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical loving-yourself self-acceptance
Be content to seem what you really are. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical mindfulness
Confine yourself to the present. Marcus Aurelius
philosophical writing color
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings. Sidney Hook
philosophical writing men
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead. Tina Fey
philosophical believe men
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore. Tom Robbins
philosophical home thinking
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car. Tom Robbins
philosophical reality thinking
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels. Tom Robbins